»Academic Integrity Violations

Academic dishonesty can take a number of forms including, but not limited to the following:

Cheating: Using or attempting to use unauthorized assistance, information, or study aids in any academic exercise.

• Copying answers from or looking at another student’s exam.
• Accessing or possessing any material not expressly permitted during an exam, such as crib sheets, notes, books.
• Using electronic devices such as cell phones, digital cameras, PDA’s, data storage devices, computers, internet, or other electronic devices unless expressly permitted by the instructor for the required coursework
• Continuing to write after a timed exam has ended.
• Taking the exam from the room and later claiming the instructor lost it.
• Fraudulent possession of a test prior to exam date.
• Submission of the same term paper or other work to more than one instructor, where no prior approval has been given.
• Submission of purchased term papers or projects done by others.

Fabrication: The falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise.

• Changing answers after an exam has been returned.
• Falsifying/omitting data and/or sources, otherwise violating the ethical principles of research.

Facilitating Academic Dishonesty: Knowingly helping or attempting to help another to violate any provision of this policy.

• Allowing another student to copy one’s work.
• Having another person take an exam or complete an assignment for oneself.
• Taking an exam or completing an assignment for another student.

Plagiarism: Representing the words, research findings, or ideas of another person as your own in any academic exercise.  At their discretion, faculty may submit student work to plagiarism-detection software, such as turnitin for review.

• Copying word for word without proper attribution.
• Paraphrasing without proper attribution.
• Using phrases from another source embedded into original material without proper attribution.
• Copying of intellectual property without proper attribution.

Misrepresentation of Academic Records: Misrepresenting, tampering with, or attempting to tamper with any University academic document, either before or after coming to Chapman University.

• Creating or altering a Chapman University transcript, diploma, verification of enrollment or any other official University document (In this case the student(s) may also face prosecution for violation of Federal and State statutes).
• Submitting false records or other documents such as transcripts from another institution.
• Failure to report all previous academic work at the time of admission.
• Failure to report all academic work attempted at other institutions after admission to the university.
• Forgery, alteration, or misuse of official academic documents (e.g., petition forms, advising forms, internship forms, etc).